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Modification of the K-means Method with an Unknown Number of Classes

Isakin, Isakin , Maksim - In: Applied Econometrics 4 (2006) 4, pp. 62-73

The classification procedure based on the K-means method with an unknown number of classes first proposed by professor Sergey Aivazian is designed and investigated in the article. The adaptive Mahalanobis metrics and dynamically computed measures of observation anomaly and class homogeneity are...

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Calidad de Vida, tiempo libre y actividad física de los uruguayos: Presentación de resultados empíricos

Ferre, Zuleika; Gandelman, Néstor; Piani, Giorgina; … - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2008

This paper presents descriptive data about Uruguayan’s quality of life and spare time. The data is divided depending on sex, education, age and living place of the target people of this study. Four of five interviewed people reported feeling quite happy or very happy. However, degree of...

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Diferencias salariales asociadas a atributos ambientales en trece ciudades colombianas: una estimación de salarios hedónicos

Ramírez, Carlos Andrés Pérez; Arbeláez, Fabio … - In: Lecturas de Economía (2007) 66, pp. 119-146

This paper estimates people’s valuation for the sensation of physical well- being directly associated with the weather. In order to accomplish this, it identifies, using an estimation of a hedonic wage model, the wage differentials between thirteen of the largest and most important Colombian...

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Costs, Quality of Life and Disease Severity in Multiple Sclerosis - A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Sweden

Henriksson, Freddie; Fredrikson, Sten; Jönsson, Bengt - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000

This study has used a cross-sectional, 'bottom-up' design to determine the cost to society of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Sweden in 1998. The total cost of MS was estimated at 4 868 MSEK, meaning an annual cost of 442 500 SEK per patient. Direct costs accounted for about 67% of total cost, and...

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La satisfacción hacia el trabajo. Un análisis basado en las teorias de las expectativas y de equidad

Chánez, López; Javier, Francisco; Casique Guerrero, Alicia - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2007) 3, pp. 219-234

The purpose of this research is to study job satisfaction, within an new labor culture environment, which has modified the rigid vertical organizational structure and has challenged new payment modalities, flexible production systems and labor competences-based profiles. This new stage has...

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Un análisis de la distribución de las transferencias intergubernamentales en Australia

Recio, Luis Ángel Hierro; Montero, Pedro Atienza; … - In: Revista de Estudios Regionales 01 (2007), pp. 307-316

Australia. Para ello, tras una breve introducción, en el apartado 2 se proponen los instrumentos de medición de la desigualdad y … transferencias en Australia. En el apartado 4 se analizan los resultados obtenidos en su conjunto y por grupos de instrumentos. Y en … resources before and after transfer systems of the Commonwealth in Australia. After an introduction, in the second part we …

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